A deep conversation with Cadell Last about Hegel, Christianity, digital culture, and why truth may only reveal itself when our stories - and our world - break apart.
In this conversation, Cadell Last returns to explore one of the most unsettling and clarifying questions of our time:
Does truth emerge through collapse?
We trace a lineage that has shaped the modern West:
Dawkins → Harris → Peterson → the Break.
Cadell interprets these figures through a Hegelian lens — Reason, Spirit, and Religion — pulling them into a single unfolding story that is now shattering under its own contradictions. What comes next is not a return to old forms, nor a clean secular future, but a moment where truth reveals itself in rupture.
Across the episode, we examine how Christianity, atheism, liberalism, science, digital culture, and political identity all collide inside this break. Cadell argues that Christianity’s power is not found in its pristine origins, but in the cuts — the Reformation, the Enlightenment, secularization, and even the digital fragmentation of the present. You argue from a symbolic-theological frame that the truth of faith is not an escape from collapse but a passage through it, with the Cross — literally and metaphysically — standing inside the fracture.
Together, we look at:
• How the Dawkins/Harris era failed to critique its own liberal metaphysics
• Why Peterson marked a return of religious seriousness to the public square
• Cadell’s claim that Christianity unveils itself through contradiction
• The fracture of the “We” in modern culture and the disintegration of shared identity
• Your Covenantal Identity Stack (person → marriage → household → tribe → nation → kingdom → church) as a symbolic map for reintegration
• How digital creators now carry religious and cultural authority once held by institutions
• Why AI, grief, embodiment, and synthetic resurrection reveal our spiritual disorientation
• Fuentes, ethnos, liberalism, and why both left and right struggle to sublate difference
• The invisible Church, the profane priesthood of podcasters, and emergent theopolitics
• The possibility that collapse is not the end of meaning but the beginning of recognition
This is an episode about faith, philosophy, collapse, and the possibility of renewal — not through nostalgia or easy solutions, but through confronting the break itself.
If truth emerges in the fracture, what kind of people — and what kind of Church — can stand inside it?
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A Hegelian, symbolic, and theological exploration of whether truth reveals itself only when our culture — and our stories — finally break.
